Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5QD4KnC002739 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:04:20 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5QD4Kg3002738 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:04:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from zeus-e8.americas.sgi.com ([198.149.7.250]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5QD4BnC002710 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:04:12 -0700 Received: from tulip-e185.americas.sgi.com (tulip-e185.americas.sgi.com [128.162.185.208]) by zeus-e8.americas.sgi.com (SGI-SGI-8.9.3/americas-smart-nospam1.1) with ESMTP id IAA43187; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:07:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n236.ols.wavesec.net (cf-vpn-sw-corp-64-70.corp.sgi.com [134.15.64.70]) by tulip-e185.americas.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/SGI-server-1.7) with ESMTP id IAA71408; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:07:29 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Can you tell me how many downloads there have been of XFS? From: Stephen Lord To: Laura Shepard Cc: "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" , Eric Eppe In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 26 Jun 2002 08:02:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1025096555.1108.6.camel@n236> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:51, Laura Shepard wrote: > > Hi there, > > There is significant business planning interest in knowing our XFS Linux > installed base. > > I have a method of inferring this from the number of downloads. > > Ideally we would like to know how many downloads there have been of XFS > since v1.0 was put on the site... can anyone assist? I do not think we have hard numbers, the logs on the machine have been purged several times. We are probably talking about a number somewhere between 10 and 100 thousand - the range really could be that wide. And of course one download does not mean one install, it can mean a failed install, and it can mean 100 installs. There are also several mirror sites people can download from. Eric can probably parse the logs on oss and get some numbers for a smaller time period. We would also have to factor in the distributions which ship XFS now: Suse, Mandrake (soon available on pc's in Walmart!), Debian and a number of less well known ones. Then do not forget the NAS boxes: Quantum, HP, Brocade, NEC, Sun and several others. The set top and embedded applications we do not really have any idea about. There is a good chance out install base is bigger than Irix by now. Steve > > -Laura > > Laura Shepard > SGI Marketing Manager : SANs & File Systems > Phone: 650-933-5045 V-net 933-5045 Pager: 888-576-0185 > Fax: 650-933-0977 Chatty Page at: shepardl_p@pager.sgi.com